Saving BO reports in excel-time issue

Hi,
I am facing an issue when i try to save a BO6.5 report in the excel format.when Busines objects saves reports into excel the issue is that the time value in Business Objects varies completley and is incorrect.There is a time difference of 11 hours
Can anyone please advise me on this issue.
Cheers,
Anu

Hi,
Try to check your system time (local settings i.e control panel-> time....) is displaying correctly or not. As BO will take your local system date/ time in reporting.
Cheers,
Suresh Aluri.

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Just check the preferences in the WEBI,
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Hi Sarbhjeet,
Thank you for all your help.
Further to our investigation we found that this is known issue and it is a limitation of the Product, it wont be fixed.
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